Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — A Fresh Definition. [ARTICLE]

A Fresh Definition.

Old Squire Prince, of Franklin County, Tennessee, was the “lamed" man of the community. Many an illiterate one came to have him write and read their letters. On one occasion a man asked him to decipher an epistle he had received from Texas. In it occurred the word “emigrant.” “What is an imigrant?” asked the dumfounded tanbark hauler. “Wall," stuttered the Squire, scratching his white hair with his spectacles for inspiration. “An imigrant is a, is an animile, snthin twixt a possum and a coon, an powerful hard on corn.” Out of 100 men you run against, you will find ninety-five worrying themselves into low spirits and indigestion about troubles that will never come.